It looks like alot of fun! I like that it seems like you are having alot of fun!
Did you play multiball almost 2 hours straight? did it work well? must be difficult to do it for so long time i think, hard for the arm. No video of the multiball practice? would be interesting to watch.
I think it is pretty cool that your coach play japanese penhold! or is it called that? Is this still common in Japan?
I noticed that you put like two or three balls in the net in a row when you blocked. Do you think you are to close to the table at those balls? it almost looks like it, but maybe it was just the angle. But i think it is really good that you change after that and do not put the backhand blocks in the net. I think it is really important to change so you do not do the same mistake again and again.
Do you play against alot of different players? you seem to have trouble with reading the spin on your coach serve. Playing against alot of players will make you much better at reading different spin. But maybe your coach have a very good serve!
Looking forward to the next video! It is fun to watch! keep up the good work!
1H then 10 minutes break then 1H
Of course its a private lesson, I can let the coach decide the whole menu or I can ask him to work on some points in particular.
This time, 1st hour, warm-up in both diagonals (he's a leftie), flat hit , topspin, and block.
Then , i decided to work on counterloop. so he fed me with long balls. FH side only then BH side only.
Next, one short ball on BH that i push long, and long topspin ball to FH is coming. Then the mirror exercise, short ball to FH coming, I push long then fast ball to BH is coming
Next exercise, long balls, 2 BH counters, 1 FH counter. mirror exercise 2FH , 1BH.
Then we always work against Backspin, so FH only, BH only, then 1FH + 1BH
every exercise is like 20-30 reps done 2-3 times.
10mns break
2nd hour, we spent 30 minutes on serves. He gave me a few tips to improve my serves. Then short receiving, FH flick and BH flick separately. Then at last this video. one of the receive we were working on is the "Nagashi" receive, trying to put sidespin against the leftie pendulum serve. He does it in the match, so I try to do it but I miss 2 in a row, obviously its not the same to execute a shot when you KNOW where the ball is coming because its a drill, and when you don't know where the serve is coming. I think I was lacking focus in this freestyle play, it was more about having fun for me.
For the BH block miss, the reason, is I'm too much hurried, and rushing i want to take the ball early and go to the ball , so i execute the shot while moving and get a wrong timing. [or another block i miss because i'm standing still] I do twice the mistake. The balls were not too difficult for me if I played with right focus, that was a bit careless. Multiball is really fast so my reaction time is rather good. The problem is I didn't have the proper reaction, which was to WAIT a bit for the ball here and play a cleaner shot.
OTOH in another point, I just play calmly and put a cross-court BH block very well placed. not a big shot, but enough at our level to score a point.
There is a very good BH rally around 2:30 where I am able to put spin speed and placement, on like 3 shots in a row with a last one down the line. I wish i was able to play like that 100% of points !
I missed too many FH attacks, because i didn't realize i served with little spin and the incoming ball has little spin as well. Also, it doesn't help that I try to aim down the line. In match, i would always play more safely to the middle or BH, but we were having fun... It was fun that i scored a BH ace serve, using the technique he showed me earlier on.
About the coach, yes, i think it is Japanese penhold. He's having fun as well and just letting me play, he likes to try to fool me with spin and placement, he's not playing his real shots or real tempo of course.
I promise you this guy is really good at serving. He showed me hist tricks but I still can't see his balls. He's using a lot of deceptive moves like moving the racket down after a topspin serve just as he hits the ball to make it look like backspin - or the reverse... Its like an illusionist ! I'm happy i make two unconventional very short topspin receives to put back his very tricky serves.
Basically apart from the 1st point which was played very academically, it was more about having fun, I made a lot of mistakes because a lack of focus, and didn't move back in position correctly, and I also tried some "champagne" TT. Sometimes it was in, but there was a lot of rubbish as well as you could see LOL.
I wanted to communicate the fun that we were having, the technique is not very pretty !
